The great Thai linguist William Gedney believed that “if all other information on traditional Thai culture were to be lost
Helle Rydstrøm has carried out research on Vietnam within the field of social anthropology since the early 1990s
As an official in the Ministry of Education
and speaker of the Asia-Africa Institute
It offers a quantitative and qualitative analysis which is fundamental to understanding the overall situation of Thai education
Thai Sex Talk: The Language of Sex and Sexuality in Thailand Language The great Thai linguist WilliamEdited by Pimpawun Boonmongkon and Peter A. Jackson Translated by Timo Ojanen The Thai language has extraordinarily rich, varied, and multi leveled vocabularies for sexual anatomy, sexual behaviors, sexual identities, and attitudes to sexuality. The authors of this in depth study of twenty one keywords deal directly and unflinchingly with the language of sex in Thailand in all its raw, sometimes humorous, and often derogatory immediacy. The registers